Posted 14 January 2016

Meet the voice cast for Jonathan Blow’s PS4 adventure The Witness

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We’re a couple of weeks away from our release date, and we’ve just finished recording the last of the voice acting, which means it’s a good time to tell you about the actors!

The Witness deliberately riffs on several traditional elements of game design, and one of those elements is the classic audio log, where you are wandering along and you find a recording that was placed there by someone before.

The Witness has recordings like this, but let’s just say they are done in a highly non-traditional way. When you first encounter them you won’t find much in the way of answers, but, if you keep looking, you will eventually be able to piece together what’s going on.

These are the folks whose fine voicework you will hear in these recordings:

Ashley Johnson, who you may know as Ellie from The Last of Us, or from her roles in Tales from the Borderlands and Infamous: First Light. She also plays the smartest person on the hit TV show Blindspot. You can find Ashley on Twitter here.

Phil LaMarr, who I best know as Marvin from Pulp Fiction, but who you may know as Vamp in Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4, or as Ratbag from Shadow of Mordor. He also played Hermes in Futurama and Ollie Williams in Family Guy! You can follow his random musings here.

Matthew Waterson, who played very English person Sir Lucan in The Order: 1886, and has recently acted in Fallout 4 and Halo 5. Check out Matthew’s amazing Sean-Connery-themed profile picture here.

Terra Deva, an oft-performing musician, including recent hit single “At Night” with the Swiss group Shakedown (though she doesn’t play music in The Witness because we don’t have music in The Witness! She is acting!) and veteran of… The Mickey Mouse Club (among many other places)!! Terra’s Twitter is here.

I will warn you, though, that the story in The Witness, such as it is, is fairly subtle and happens mostly implicitly. You really have to explore and read between the lines to know what’s going on. So do not expect a traditional game story like The Last of Us or The Order! All that said, we are very happy to have these actors lending their talents to our game, and I look forward to release when you’ll see what we’ve been up to.

Cool, I’ve been über excited for The Witness for just the longest time! I’ll be buying it on both PS4 and iPad.

Hey Jonathan, while you’re here, is there any chance of releasing Braid on PS Vita? It’d be great to fall in love with the seminal platformer all over again. Only this time, on my favourite system of all time… that’s right, the oft-overlooked, but utterly fantastic, Playstation Vita :0)

Amazing this is finally hitting after being unveiled at the Playstation 4 Feb. Reveal. One of my most anticipated of the year and really excited to see the voice actors present are high quality. Ashley looks fantastic in that photo too!

Can’t wait, instant purchase and my surround is ready for the intricate sound in this one

Looks great. There’s something about the vibrant coloring and artstyle that sets it apart visually from other games. It should provide a nice break from my seemingly never-ending Witcher 3 playthrough.

Feels like absolutely years and years ago when I first heard about this game , been following its ups and downs, and now it’s finally here, puzzles are my kinda game , anything that makes you use the old grey matter lol, every time I see an update I’m more and more impressed, thank you Jonathan, long time coming but well worth the wait,

This game BETTER NOT be delayed it says out 26th jan its now 26th jan it should of been added by now the ps4 store just updated abit so hurry up and add it already and the word delay has just been locked in jail